Don't be intimidated by others' entries. We love looking at images from photographers of all levels! Inspiration comes from so many places.

You have approximately 3 weeks to enter then I'll announce the winner week #4! So get out there and take some pics!!!

TO ENTER

1) Make a post on your own blog that features your photo entry (and any text if you want telling a little bit about the subject matter and why you chose it.)

2) Add the Picture Perfect button to a post on your blog. Just copy the code under the Picture Perfect button and paste it into the body of your Picture Perfect post where you'd like the button to be displayed. The button and the code is right over there on the right side bar on top. When you click "publish" it it will show up fine.

3) Come back and link up at the bottom of this post. (It's not hard... really!) ***Feel free to link up to Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa or whatever, in lieu of a blog if you prefer.***

SO WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

Bragging rights!

Brownie points!

Bloggie-crack! (a.k.a. comments on your blog)

My undying admiration!

Hits on your blog!

And if you win, a wicked cool Picture Perfect blog badge that announces to all your readers that you won! (OK, it's not really "wicked cool" but still!)

THIS MONTH'S THEME

Drum roll please...

Color!

Yes, the photos submitted this month should be in color, but more than that, these pics should highlight color is some way. Maybe a pop of color stands out or perhaps it's processed in a way that draws the viewers eye to something that we wouldn't see otherwise. As photos are submitted, I think we can draw inspiration from one another. (Yes, I'm trying to keep the themes kinda easy for now. Don't want to scare anyone away 'cause we're all about low stress here!)

When I went to take pics of this redhead last month, I spotted this storage trailer. Then when he showed up in the bright green shirt, I couldn't resist combining all of them together. Popped the contrast and saturation a bit to emphasize the bright colors. The freckles don't hurt none!

This second example is sweet Livy taken a couple years ago. On this image, I had no clue how prominent the blue would be. The blue just lends itself to the calm serene feeling that she has on her face as she watches her siblings play.

Love the subject! We just came back from CNY in China where everything was just saturated in bright colors. It takes me like three days to get a photo to post though so I'll try to post one (or more if possible). Love Scooping It Up's photo by the way, that is just adorable!-Michele

4 yrs - the average time a child spends in American foster care before being adopted

1.5 million children live in public care in Central and Eastern Europe

12.4 million orphans live in Latin America and the Carribean

43.4 million orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa

87.6 million orphans live in Asia

16 million children were orphaned in 2003

Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned as a result of AIDS

400,000+ children in the American Foster Care in 2011

20,000+ young people "age out" of the U.S. foster care system each year. Of these only a little over half will earn a high school diploma.

147 million orphans in the world

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness. Kindness in your face. Kindness in your eyes. Kindness in your smile." ~Mother Teresa

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